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...Claude Cross was quiet and dogged; he also seemed sincerely convinced of his client's innocence. At the end of nearly five hours, he had punched a few holes in the peripheral testimony, suggested that the State Department documents had been stolen not by Hiss, but by Julian Wadleigh, or "a thief in the Far East division," and talked himself into hoarse exhaustion...
Chambers had been an atheist, an Episcopalian, a Quaker: "inability to make stable attachments." He had touched Julian Wadleigh for $20 and Hiss for small sums which he had never repaid: "panhandling...
...last week, as Julian Wadleigh, former State Department employee, took the stand, an air of excitement and tension finally came to the courtroom. It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss. Cross had contended in his opening statement that Wadleigh, and not Alger Hiss, had stolen the famed Pumpkin Papers...
...Remotely Possible." Shaggy-looking, Oxford-educated Witness Wadleigh admitted that he had been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated...
...conceivable that you gave these to Chambers? . . ." demanded Cross. Wadleigh admitted that it was "remotely possible," but unlikely...